Connecting the dots

Puh-lease! As if The Stupid Party was that competent.■ The GOP doesn't have to engage in destructive behavior vis the ObamaTax - those in charge of its implementation are doing a bang-up job themselves:

Actually, many of them specifically opted out of being contacted, which of course didn't stop the rocket surgeons running the Golden State's Exchange.■ Some of us are old enough to remember punch cards, cassette tapes and floppy disks [ed: anyone else remember ZipDrives?], long before CD's and internet streaming became ubiquitous. Of course, as the new technology came along, we adapted and adopted. Well, most of us did, anyway:

Those "storage squares" were are also called microfloppy disks. One wonders if these Federal Register folks are also enjoying the latest releases on VHS.

So what do these three stories have in common? I would argue that they are symptoms of a greater illness: the hubris that the Government is competent to successfully design, manage and trouble-shoot a system as complex as health care, or that it ever will be.